Daniel Levitin Quotes About Evidence

• People are trying to build a society where they can talk across the aisle so to speak, and have civil discourse. At the same time we're trying to inform ourselves about what's really true so that we can make evidence based decisions that is better than superstition or rumor. But the fact is that people who use evidence based decision making have much better life outcomes, greater life satisfaction, they live longer, they make better personal and medical decisions, better financial decisions. But parallel to that is you can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

  Daniel Levitin

  People, Decision, Rumor

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

• Aunque hoy en día es más fácil encontrar información, también es más fácil que nunca encontrar desinformación, pseudohechos, opiniones sin fundamento y marginales, y cosas por el estilo. Hay que enseñar a los niños a una edad temprana lo que constituye una prueba, cómo detectar sesgos o distorsiones en las crónicas de los periódicos y que existen jerarquías de fuentes de información. En el campo de la medicina, por ejemplo, un experimento controlado publicado en una revista revisada por pares es mejor fuente que un blog de la Asociación de Cultivadores de Ginseng, promocionando los beneficios para la salud de su propio producto.

  Daniel Levitin

  Children, Age, Peers

  "Daniel J. Levitin Q&A: 'We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2015.

• When we have learned something, there's this thing called belief perseverance. Having learned something, we tend to cling to that belief, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

  Daniel Levitin

  Perseverance, Belief, Evidence

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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